Endohedrally doped cage clusters

J Zhao, Q Du, S Zhou, V Kumar - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

Machine learning: a new paradigm in computational electrocatalysis

X Zhang, Y Tian, L Chen, X Hu… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Designing and screening novel electrocatalysts, understanding electrocatalytic mechanisms
at an atomic level, and uncovering scientific insights lie at the center of the development of …

In-situ reconstructed Ru atom array on α-MnO2 with enhanced performance for acidic water oxidation

C Lin, JL Li, X Li, S Yang, W Luo, Y Zhang, SH Kim… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
The development of acid-stable oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysts is essential for
high-performance water splitting. Here, we report an electrocatalyst with Ru-atom-array …

Density functional theory calculations for insight into the heterocatalyst reactivity and mechanism in persulfate-based advanced oxidation reactions

P Zhang, Y Yang, X Duan, Y Liu, S Wang - ACS catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) based on persulfates such as peroxymonosulfate
and peroxydisulfate via heterogeneous catalysts have been a research hotspot due to their …

Tuning the CO2 Hydrogenation Selectivity of Rhodium Single‐Atom Catalysts on Zirconium Dioxide with Alkali Ions

S Li, Y Xu, H Wang, B Teng, Q Liu, Q Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tuning the coordination environments of metal single atoms (M1) in single‐atom catalysts
has shown large impacts on catalytic activity and stability but often barely on selectivity in …

Silica-water superstructure and one-dimensional superionic conduit in Earth's mantle

J Li, Y Lin, T Meier, Z Liu, W Yang, H Mao, S Zhu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Water in Earth's deep interior is predicted to be hydroxyl (OH−) stored in nominally
anhydrous minerals, profoundly modulating both structure and dynamics of Earth's mantle …

Observation of an all-boron fullerene

HJ Zhai, YF Zhao, WL Li, Q Chen, H Bai, HS Hu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
After the discovery of fullerene-C60, it took almost two decades for the possibility of boron-
based fullerene structures to be considered. So far, there has been no experimental …

Machine learning for atomic simulation and activity prediction in heterogeneous catalysis: current status and future

S Ma, ZP Liu - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysis, for its industrial importance and great complexity in structure, has
long been the testing ground of new characterization techniques. Machine learning (ML) as …

Thermodynamics versus kinetics in nanosynthesis

Y Wang, J He, C Liu, WH Chong… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One may discover a stone tool by chance but it takes more than luck to make a car or cell
phone. With the advance of nanoscience, the synthesis of increasingly sophisticated …

Zeolite-confined subnanometric PtSn mimicking mortise-and-tenon joinery for catalytic propane dehydrogenation

S Ma, ZP Liu - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Heterogeneous catalysts are often composite materials synthesized via several steps of
chemical transformation, and thus the atomic structure in composite is a black-box. Herein …